Brennan Manning – Feel with Neil

For New Years, I’m re-solved to be me: “Choose” the secret to success

My re-solution? My again-solution. Is it chosen? Or shown?

Even if we start out with all good intentions, self improvement leads to the expectation that others should be improving themselves also.

Sometimes when things feel a little grim to me, I forget. I *am* being loved.

Despite how desperately you wish to embody some ideal, you can’t. Logically, ideals cannot be fully embodied by ANYbody.

We are not mere thinking machines; we are feelers as well.

Don’t be too quick to embrace the fundamentalism that summarily ascribes all of your good fortune to God/God’s will.